BubbleMaps issued a fresh warning to the community about the token LAB, whose upcoming early investor cliff unlock could trigger a sharp price drop.
The on-chain analytics firm published a post with a brief “This will be ugly“, after detecting irregular patterns in the token’s data visualizations. At that point, presale participants were sitting on more than $1 billion in unrealized gains — funds that will remain locked until 2027.
UPDATE: $LAB is down -60% in a few days
Investors are still up $500 million (on paper), but the first unlock is in 2 weeks
Tick tock ⌛ https://t.co/dkCSBEV9MG pic.twitter.com/FnMQyVgUE2
— Bubblemaps (@bubblemaps) July 3, 2026
Since then, the token has dropped approximately 60% in just a few days. LAB is currently trading at $7.2 according to CoinMarketCap, with a market capitalization of $2.34 billion and a fully diluted valuation of $7.51 billion. Paper gains for presale investors have shrunk to around $500 million.
Beyond BubbleMaps, on-chain investigator ZachXBT claimed that LAB insiders controlled more than 95% of the token’s supply. He also exposed opaque private loans and promotional deals offering 80% discounts to key opinion leaders in exchange for sponsored content.
Analytics firm Lookonchain further reported that ten new wallets withdrew 100 million LAB tokens from Bitget within a 12-hour window. The LAB team and its founder Vova Sadkov did not respond to either investigation or to BubbleMaps.
Source: https://x.com/bubblemaps/status/2072999437610455136
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